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How to Write a Personal Diary Entry

The document provides information about diary writing, including that it is a very personal form of writing meant to record significant events and feelings. It outlines the typical format of a diary entry, including the date, salutation, heading, contents, and signature. It notes that creativity, imagination, and expression are important and it should be written in the first person from one's own perspective. Only matters of significance are recorded as it is a secret record. The document then provides a sample diary entry about a school picnic by a student named Jitendra/Jayashree Patel.

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How to Write a Personal Diary Entry

The document provides information about diary writing, including that it is a very personal form of writing meant to record significant events and feelings. It outlines the typical format of a diary entry, including the date, salutation, heading, contents, and signature. It notes that creativity, imagination, and expression are important and it should be written in the first person from one's own perspective. Only matters of significance are recorded as it is a secret record. The document then provides a sample diary entry about a school picnic by a student named Jitendra/Jayashree Patel.

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  • Diary Writing
  • Introduction and Format
  • Important Points to Note
  • Example: School Picnic
  • Example: Feelings About Grandparents

DIARY WRITING

A diary entry is a very personal kind of writing.


It is meant to record certain significant events and feelings of the writer.
FORMAT:
Date/day
Salutation Dear Diary
Heading of the entry
Contents of the diary entry
Signature i.e. Name
IMPORTANT POINTS TO BE NOTED:

Creativity, imagination and expression in diary writing are tested.


You should write as if you have really been a part of the situation.
It is written in the first person.
One does not write about things experienced on a daily basis.
Only matters of some significance are recorded.
It is a secret record of ones life, so one can be very honest about ones
feelings and emotions.
You are going on a school picnic with your classmates and teachers.
You are very excited. The night before the trip you sit down to write
your diary. Describe in about 150 words what you have planned for
the picnic and how you hope to enjoy yourself there. You are
Jitendra/Jayashree Patel.
Friday, 22 June 2007
9 pm
Dear Diary,
MY CLASS PICNIC
I am feeling very excited tonight. I am going on a picnic tomorrow with my classmates. Some of our
teachers will also accompany us. We have been planning for this trip ever since our principal gave us
permission a month ago. We are going to Nehru Park. It has a large ground where children can run
around and play freely. I have packed some food items including potato chips and chewing gum. My
mother has made a dozen sandwiches and a cake. My friends will also be bringing some food, and we
shall all share and eat. I am also carrying my cricket bat with me. We plan to play a match.
I feel I just cannot go to sleep tonight. I keep imagining all the fun that we are going to have tomorrow.
But my mother came into the room just now and warned me that if I do not go to sleep now, I might fall
asleep at the picnic! As if that is ever going to happen! But may be shes right. So, good night!
Name
You are Victoria and you are really angry and disturbed at
the way your parents, uncle and aunt have behaved with
your grandfather. Express your thoughts and feelings
about the value of the love of grandparents in a persons
life in the form of a diary entry in about 150 words.

DIARY WRITING
A diary entry is a very personal kind of writing. It is meant to record certain significant events and feelings of the wri
IMPORTANT POINTS TO BE NOTED: Creativity, imagination and expression in diary writing are tested. You should write as if yo
You are going on a school picnic with your classmates and teachers. You are very excited. The night before the trip you sit
Friday, 22 June 2007 9 pm Dear Diary, MY CLASS PICNIC I am feeling very excited tonight. I am going on a picnic tomorrow with
You are Victoria and you are really angry and disturbed at the way your parents, uncle and aunt have behaved with your gran

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